Woodlandville, Missouri

Woodlandville is an unincorporated community in western Boone County, Missouri, United States.[1] The community is on Missouri Route J about six miles south of Harrisburg and 5.5 miles north of I-70 and Rocheport.[2] There is only a church there, and a large water tower, along with a few homes.

History

A post office called Woodlandville was established in 1872, and remained in operation until 1932.[3] Woodlandville was so named because the land was covered with wood, and in contradistinction to prairie.[4]

References

  1. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Woodlandville, Missouri
  2. Missouri Atlas & Gazetteer, DeLorme, 1998, First edition, pp. 30 and 37, ISBN 0-89933-224-2
  3. "Post Offices". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved September 4, 2016.
  4. Eaton, David Wolfe (1916). How Missouri Counties, Towns and Streams Were Named. The State Historical Society of Missouri. pp. 213.

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